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Not standing by itself; dependent. Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency.

In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively.

An adjective, commonly called the indefinite article, and signifying one or any, but less emphatically.

An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable.

A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.

Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective. W. Taylor (1797)

As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively.

An adjective, or attribute. [R.] Coleridge.

An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.

army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.

This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is…

Before death; -- generally used adjectivelly; as, an ante- mortem statement; ante-mortem examination.

mething, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority; -- formerly used also adjectively. [Obs.] Locke.

"That which is behind"; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate. Arriere fee, Arriere fief, a fee or fief dependent on a superior fee, or a fee held of a feudatory. -- Arriere vassal, the vassal of a vassal.

As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is equivalent to -ed; as, situate or situated; animate or animated.

Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.

A word that denotes an attribute; esp. a modifying word joined to a noun; an adjective or adjective phrase.

m for man. -- Back stairs, stairs in the back part of a house; private stairs. Also used adjectively. See Back stairs, Backstairs, and Backstair, in the Vocabulary. -- Back step (Mil.), the retrograde movement of a man or body of men, without changing front. -- Back stream, a current running against the main current…

rdered from the buttery; also, the charges for them; -- only in the pl., except when used adjectively. [Univ. of Oxford, Eng.]